sources say they set off in october in search of a young woman stolen their hearts in a boat race. officials say they lived off coco nuts and rain water, the boys will travel to samoa tomorrow. and that is your last call of the fight. thanks for joining us tonight. had a great time. greta back next week. until then keep it here on fox ♪ ♪ >> glenn: hello, america. if you're anything like me, you spent thanksgiving eating your face off. and then you said no, i can't eat another bite. and then you retired to the rom

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watch this audience. >> a brand new totally redesigned 2012 volkswagen prius. [ applause ] >> glenn: they won a new car and that's cool and everything, but watch. [ applause ] okay. now it's starting to get spooky. it goes on and on and on. people are down on their knees and praising god and everything else. and mean, i -- look, i never won a car. i got to believe i'd be going yes, oprah, i love you! but it seemed -- is it just me? i mean, when nobody here is

winning a car. [ laughter ] you've won a brand new pencil! yeah. i mean is it just me? it just seemed over the top. here we are on black friday. you know, the original thanksgiving happened on, i think it was december 18. in the 1700s. after our country was founded. they said, let's have this thanksgiving. they said, even harmless recreation shouldn't be done, because we should fall to our knees and give thanks to god for everything we have. what we have i think is maybe is leading us. what we have is what we're worshipping now. there are black friday camp-outs. do we have pictures of the black friday camp-outs? there have been couples that

are in this tent and they've been there for a week-and-a-half. they got their stuff. yeah, look at me! i'm going to get stuff! apple iphone lines. i've never understood the apple iphone. this is in manhattan. dopes line up for the new apple iphone. you can buy them without camping out in like two weeks. i mean, what? really! what is, what is happening to us? what is happening to us? do you remember the people that were in detroit and had the obama-cash? remember i played this audio for you. do we have what audio? here is the, here is what people in detroit, they lined up to get free cash. they didn't even know what it was. but listen to the joy in their voice. >> why are you here? >> to get some money. >> what kind of money? >> obama money. >> where is it coming from?

>> obama. >> where did obama get it? i don't know. i don't know where he got it from, but he's giving it to us to help us. we love him. that's why we voted for him! obama! obama! >> glenn: i don't -- gosh, i hope i never worship stuff. like that. you know, rabbi lapin was on a couple of weeks ago and we were talking about the story of the tower of babel and what binds us. the tower of babel story was about nimrod, the king, the hunter of men. he made everybody into bricks. in other words, they weren't stones. if stones, stones are more like people. stones can be like this. they're all different. they're made individually. no two alike.

fingerprints, no two alike. nobody. even identical twins have different fingerprints. it's interesting, because our fingerprints, it's our hands. it's what we do. it's what we create. we create with our hands. they're all different. nimrod wanted to make all of us the same, into bricks. then he used mortar. if you remember what rabbi lapin said, the hebrew word, really, mortar is materialism. materialism. is what held everybody together. as bricks. their stuff. let me show you something that is in "broke." this is a book that -- i mean you don't need stuff, but you definitely need to run to the store and buy this. i've been saying for a couple of weeks, if you just go stand in the bookstore. and you just read the first couple of pages, i can guarantee you that you will buy this book and you will

have it on your shelf and you will use it for years to come. just in the first couple of pages, the first chapter is ancient history; modern lessons. i talks about ancient rome. we're going to do a show i think next week on ancient rome and parallels of ancient rome. they're spooky. we are repeating everything. ancient rome did. but in the, i think it's on page six, page seven, those in the city in ancient rome got an increasing amount of government hand-outs for their money. practice that was part of a long-term plan to make people forget about the history. they were trying to figure out, they were trying to make people forget about what was going on. so they gave the people particularly in the cities more money. according to gibben, the guy who wrote decline and fall of the roman empire in the 1700s

when he wrote, that he said it was artfully contrived by augustus that enjoyment of plenty would make the romans lose the memory of freedom. the enjoyment of plenty would make us, would make them forg forget freedom. that's intense. think about that. there would be a place, give me five more seconds and then stop and talk about this amongst yourself, with your family. how much did we etch know about our own to his -- even know about our own history two years ago? why? why didn't we learn it? why didn't we know? why didn't we explore? why didn't we ask more questions about the patriot act or ask more questions what is going on with our finances and how can we possibly afford social security, medicare and healthcare and everything else? how come we didn't ask these questions earlier? because of our stuff. we were held together by

stuff. by entertainment. and because of yesterday, food. entertainment and stuff. if we are hungry -- and i've told you before that inflation is coming. if we're hungry, what binds us? if we don't have our cable television, if we can't get the latest, you know, game, if we're sleeping outside of the apple store. for the latest iphone. we're sleeping outside of the best buy for what? for entertainment. but what does the entertainment do? i mean it keeps us busy and everybody loves entertainment, et cetera, et cetera, but really, it stops us from talking to each other. do you remember, at least me, when i was a kid, we didn't watch football. we had food. grandma, whoa, we had food.

if she would have been italian, i'd be a dead man. lots of food, entertainment but we didn't have a lot of stuff. but what we did have, we talked. i remember the holidays lasting well in to the night all around the kitchen table. we were always sitting, and they were the same stories every year. every single year. the same stories, but we learned about our past. that's important. did you do that this thanksgiving? the weekend is not up yet. do it. your children must know their past. i want to show you this coat, because i learned so much about myself in the last week or so. with this coat. and it actually also restored hope in people.

this coat, you see here, it says here, for the wardrobe of bill beck by the varsity shop, mount vernon, washington. my father had one suit. one. he apparently got it at the varsity shop. this is my father. this is my sister. i'm not in this picture. but this is my father. this is our bakery when i was growing up. i grew up in a little teeny town called mount vernon, washington. in the 1970s, early 1970s, the town was dying. and my folks saw it coming. the mall moved in to town and my folks saw it coming. they knew, as stores were closing, they knew we had to change. so, here it is 1972-1973, somewhere in that area. the by centennial is come -- bicentennial is coming, named for mount vernon, maimed

after george washington and in washington state named for george washington. there is nothing like this on the west coast. they said let's make a colonial town, cool for the bicentennial, it's a destination. we have to change. we don't have jc penney and sears and everything else, and it will change but we could bring in specialty shops and have gas lamps and everything else. so what they did is we started this militia. yes, i said it, america. glenn beck is in a militia. i think there were three at the beginning. and this is my father. this is that coat. i haven't seen this coat probably since 1977. maybe. i don't know where it has been.

i'll tell you how i found it in a second. but what i learned from this coat, as it was delivered to my office here in new york, just last week was that it's not by happenstance that i'm here. my folks loved my little hometown. i still do. it's a great, great town. it has weathered -- there is still, they are still bricking the streets. they're now making it in to the town my folks said to make it into. because see, my folks -- they didn't win. and it became very awkward for my family. i mean you're dressing like this in the pacific northwest, you're not real popular. and they could only get a few people to catch the vision of it. too many people in town at the time were in denial.

they said, "oh, no, the malls are a passing fad." really? are they now? and so they couldn't save the town. and my folks ended up getting a divorce. and my -- our bakery was sold. a bakery that had been there since the late 1800s closed. and they never stopped fighting. and this coat made me realize that i'm my dad. i'm just doing it on a national scale. not the local scale like my dad and mom did. my mother made this coat by hand. i remember she made the patterns herself. she cut out the patterns and she made the patterns, herself. so, the second thing i learned from this coat.

people are good. people are good. let me tell you how it found its way to me. it's the story of a young woman. she was struggling to make ends meet, provide for her family. she had just really gone through a rough divorce. and she was about to lose her house. let me show you her story and how it affected me and my family personally. watch this. >> like a lot of people across america, this past year, amanda zistch struggled to stay in her home. >> i have a big mortgage for my house. the house is very much still under water. it's just me, a single mom. >> making it more difficult, the 30-year-old from mount lake terrace, washington, is newly divorced and a single mom to a 3-year-old girl named ella.

>> it's scary being a single mom and having a big mortgage. >> yet, she refused to ask for help from friends and family. >> my parents are there ready to help when i need it, but i want to do it on my own. >> instead, she capped in her own entrepreneurial spirit, opening up her own online vintage clothing shop. >> i look at it as a great form of recycling. i find treasures and i'm able to pass them on to people that really love them. it really fulfills me, really my passion in life. >> she often searches the racks of her local good will for unique vintage pieces to sell at her online store. >> january 2010 is the first month i actually made any money. not much. and each month i've made more. so, i don't know how much i can actually make, but last month i made over $6,000 profit. >> the site is helping her bring in a little extra cash she needs. but it also helps her do something so much more. >> if i found somebody else's personal property at the good will, i would want to return it to them right away.

it's someone's personal item that needed to go back to its owner. that's how i looked at it. it's not something to make money off of. >> recently, she came across something. custom made revolutionary war coat. the name tag insaid read bill beck. >> it said on the tag, for the wardrobe of bill beck, mount vernon, washington. i thought who is this bill beck fellow that gets coats made for him. it googled it and glenn beck's name popped up. i called my mom and i said i think i have glenn beck's coat. >> my mom hand made the coat for my dad, sewing a custom made label in the lining and hearts in the coat tail. i haven't seen this coat since 1976-'77. >> i saw the hearts embroidered on the inside of the jacket and thought it must have been made with love to put the heart on the inside. a real special thing. >> my dad and my family dressed up in revolutionary gear. it was to celebrate the

bicentennial, but a way to draw attention to the town. it caused a rift in the community and my family took a lot of heat. but my mom and dad stood their ground. those ideas have stood the test of time. apparently, so has the coat. amanda says she probably would have gotten $300-$400 for the coat in the online shop, but instead she chose to send it to me. i am grateful to her for that. for eme, the coat has invaluable memories sewn into it. >> it's a great story to tell my daughter one day, about how i found this coat, it belonged to somebody famous. and returned it to them. added a good deed. a good lesson. >> i called amanda after i received the coat, she wanted no fame or fortune for her kindness. i could tell that she knows she's leading by example. just as i once looked up to and admired my dad in his

custom coat. ella is looking up to and watching her mom's actions today. >> i hope she learns to be selfless and to do things for others without thought of what happens in return. >> i was on my way home from a doctor's appointment. when i finally got when i finally got amanda's phone number. i had just received the coat that morning in my office. i have called her up and i had a great conversation with her. didn't last long. it hung up. and i looked at my assistant who was there. and i said she never ever mentioned the name of her business. she never asked me for a dime. she was just happy i got the coat. i said can you ask her if we can put her and her daughter on a plane and bring her to

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>> glenn: that is my father's jacket that came, that my mother made for my father when they were trying to save the hometown of mount vernon, washington. by the way, it's a great town. go visit and see the specialty shops and see a movie in the lincoln theater. it's where i saw "star wars." it's unbelievable. i haven't seen the jacket in forever. amanda found the jacket at a good will store outside of seattle. hi, by the way. how are you? >> good. >> glenn: you are my hero. how did you find the jacket? you went to good will? >> i go to a lot of shift stores looking for stuff to sell to make money for my -- to save my house. >> somebody would have bought that? >> i don't know. >> glenn: crazy. >> yeah. >> glenn: when you wrote -- you called your mom and said i think i have glenn beck's dad jacket, right? >> mm-hmm.

>> glenn: your mom, did she think you did or not? >> she said well, you should probably contact, but she didn't believe me, i don't think. >> glenn: yeah. we get just -- just my radio show address gets 5,000 e-mails every single day. and we read them all. and this one actually came to me. it was forwarded up to me. a guy walks in to my office that morning and he said is this your father's jacket? just out of the blue. i went oh, my gosh! let me see that. yeah, i think it is! what i said to him, he told me the story that you found it and you wanted to know if it was, you were running a vintage clothing store. and i said, oh, boy, this is going to hurt. ask her how much. i just figured somebody is just going to take and just, especially in seattle, the odds are very high that you would hate me.

[ laughter ] and just bleed me dry. two days later, the coat shows up. i said what did we pay for it? what did she charge? they said nothing. why? >> well, it belonged to you. i thought it did. so i thought it should go back to its owner. >> glenn: and you started this because you just went through a really hard divorce. >> mm-hmm. >> glenn: and the banker told you basically 80% of the people that are in your situation will lose their house. >> yes. >> glenn: and you decided not to be a victim. >> trying, very hard. >> glenn: right. how is business? hang on a second. where is it? let me -- >> oh, my goodness. >> glenn: how's business? >> good. >> glenn: is it? what could you find here? >> oh, i have about 1,000 things for sale right now. >> glenn: 1,000 things that are like really, really great bargains! and well cared for.

and wonderful stuff. >> oh, my goodness. >> glenn: please go here. please. please. what are you watching the show for? go here. here is a woman. do you hate her child? you should see ella. she is so cute. do you want her not to have food? is that what it is? she can eat if you go here. and buy stuff. i know this whole show is about don't buy stuff, but -- [ laughter ] this isn't working out well for me. okay. okay. don't buy other stuff. just buy this stuff. >> there we go. >> glenn: so you now have this business online. it is -- you still have another job. this is your second job. >> second job. >> glenn: you work for -- >> the local health department. >> glenn: which is a lot of fun. >> yes. >> glenn: it could be worse. you could work for the t.s.a.. >> yes.

>> glenn: which is strangely becoming almost the same thing. so what do you do from here? is this, is this shop something that you think i'm really -- this is me, or is this a steppingstone? >> i love my shop. i love vintage clothing. it's my passion. i'm excited to have found it. it's a -- i'm happy right now. really happy. divorce is over. >> glenn: did you think that that was possible a couple of years ago? >> no. about a year ago, no. >> glenn: yeah. america, first of all, i am grateful for you. i am grateful for that jacket. i can't tell you what it means to me. i'm grateful for your example that people who just want to do the right thing still do it. there are still decent people. i am grateful for your example of someone who wasn't

going to liver off the backs of somebody else. you reached inside yourself and did it. you're a hero. i don't know if you know that. you're a hero. hopefully, you'll be able to burn this show to a dvd and when your daughter is old enough you can play it. and ella, be like your mom. she's a hero. back in a minute. [ applause ]

6:00 eastern. now back to glenn beck. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: today's show is designed to talk most yourselves a little bit. drr the -- dvr the show and stop it and talk with your family. talk of something of real substance. talk about who you are, history of the family. share it with your children. josephine is here. i ask the audience here a minute ago, what is anybody getting out of this so far? >> you did the right thing and by doing the right thing, god blessed her and now she

will get customers by doing this. if you give, it will be given on to you. >> would it matter if -- i could have easily hung up the phone and then not said hey, come on -- she didn't ask for anything. i could have said thank you for the jacket. >> you could have done that but god would bless her in another way. basically, if you give, he says you will keep the storehouse full. if we keep giving, god will give back to us. we have to keep giving. >> glenn: i didn't josephine, i didn't know she was a bible freak. [ laughter ] what did you get out of this? >> setting an example for her daughter. even if you hadn't called her back and said come on the show, her daughter is watching. >> glenn: that is an interesting phrase to use. "her daughter is watching." this is the thing that

impressed me on 8-28 is our children are watching us. i know. it really came home when i saw this jacket. i know that i learn ed you stand up for what you believe in, even if the whole town makes fun of you. you keep standing if you believe it's the right thing. you keep going. i learned it just by watching them. and what? i learned it from my dad. yeah. >> it's a leader now for the kids. >> glenn: right. that's -- i think that is what is happening in america. i don't know if you know this. but your children are watching you. every step of the way. they're watching. when you say this is crap and this ought to stop, somebody ought to do something. what is it -- they're watching you. they're watching your example now of do you just sit and take it? or do you get up and do

something? do you do something negative, or do you do something positive? i want to bring in rabbi daniel lapin, good friend of mine. president of american alliance for jews and christians. and just -- you're the guy, rabbi, i think this tower -- i think of this tower of babel story, i thought about every day since we last met. it's really powerful. the glue that what binds us is materialism. it concerns me -- >> it anesthitizes. and gives us control. >> glenn: it sounds better when he says it. >> yes. >> glenn: what have you gotten out of the story of the jacket and amanda? >> profoundly moving. you have a lot of friends in seattle, regardless of -- [ laughter ] >> glenn: i needed a swat team last time i was there. >> i know, i know. you got aot spring to mind with

is that first of all, you probably are not the only person she has done this to. had you not responded the way you did, as josephine said, this is part of her life. she has done it for other people. had there been no response from you, she still would have done it. >> glenn: learned it from her mom. >> i think what jumped out for me is the marvelous story in genesis where joseph's brothers have decided to kill him. they throw him in to a pit and he is going to die there. all of a sudden, juddah, after who the jewish people are named, has an incredible statement where he gets up and says to his brother, he says hey, guys, what profit is there in killing our brother? if we could make a buck or two, then i'd understand. obviously we have to kill him. [ laughter ] i can't figure out a way of making money by killing him. let's sell him. everyone says yeah, yeah, let's do that.

at the end of genesis, they put him through the whole thing. he sends them with the grain and puts the money in the bag and is trying to say, hey, guys, we can get together again as brothers when you realize that this isn't about the money you idiots, it's about the relationships. you were willing to kill the brotherhood and relationship for the money. you said why kill him, there is no money in it? if there was money, sure, we'd kill him. i want you to understand it's not about the money. it's relationships come first. i saw this come to life. you brought hope if i may say to millions of americans who deep down know the idea if you focus on the relationships, nurture the friendships, care for people, just give. just give. don't worry about what you give. >> glenn: i want to go back there to if, you know, if you give you get more back.

that doesn't always -- i know people who are very giving and are dirt poor and don't have a break. it's not exactly that, i don't think. we'll get into that. the idea this thanksgiving of breaking out as we're preparing now for christmas. breaking out of the cycle of stuff. and trying to put the things in our own life that are truly important. it's really difficult. i want to share my toughest christmas with you. and something i still struggle with. i just went christmas shopping last weekend with my daughter and we talked about it. i really struggle with it. we'll talk about that next.

>> i am telling you now with everything in me, in 20 years from now, someone will be 28 and they will say, i remember my parents took me as a kid and i remember that moment. and i remember that's when i decided i was going to live my life in a different way. >> we must grow our own george washingtons. we must grow a new abraham lincoln. >> this is my future.

i want to show my family, my son that america is worth saving. america is honorable. >> discover what you truly believe. find out why you believe it. find out what your place is in all of this. what is your mission? what is your duty? what is your honor? ♪

>> glenn: glenn beck is not going to fix it. i hope to inspire you to fix it. i have no idea what i'm doing with the economy and i had no idea what i was doing with a 1965 mustang.

back with rabbi lapin. i want to see if you can help me on something. i don't know if i'm alone on this or anybody else feels this way. i have been rich, and poor and then i was rich again and poor again and by the way, rich is much better. but poor taught me more. christmastime, because i grew up without, i'm like my grandma was with food. more the better. more shows how much i love you. i have a hard time going overboard. does anybody else feel that way? do you feel that way, too? thank goodness because i thought it was just me. how do you deal with that? >> i think like everything

else, you find balance. to suggest that we're better off with no possessions at all is in a certain sense to rob us of our humanity. one of the things that is different about the way god created human beings from the way he created the other beings on the planet, we're the only creatures who own things. and we're expected to own things. for instance, you can't give charity, if you don't own anything in the first place. >> glenn: right. >> so, owning is good. but being owned by your possessions is not good. >> glenn: that is the love of money. >> i suppose, yes. >> glenn: i just gave him the greatest set up in the world. i said to a rabbi, how is the balance on buying christmas presents? he said here is the balance, become jewish. >> christmas is -- i don't celebrate christmas. i'm jewish, obviously. i respect christmas, i honor

christmas and i love christmas, because it's the time of the year everybody is out buying stuff. that's okay for two reasons. number one, that's making shopkeepers, manufacturers, artists, that's making other people very happy. number two, all the stuff, i mean every survey shows that the overwhelming proportion of everything being purchased is for other people. it's gifts. >> glenn: i tell you there is something special about this time of year. we change. >> yes. >> glenn: and the secret is to become that person all the time. my wife and i say the same thing every year. stop. stop. don't get so lost in the things that you have to do. do the things that you should do. é;çwwómçnh@ox÷ñú)

>> glenn: it's black friday. people are out shopping. i'm all for shopping. especially from the local

stores. buy the stuff. just buy something that's meaningful. we are talking about thanksgiving. the holiday season and giving. it came up in conversation that people that don't, people that give, big hearted people give, give, give. they don't gain stuff back. that is not the promise, is it? >> no. that is not the promise at all. not necessarily. a lot of things you have to do to reap the blessing. giving is one of them. showing love and compassion to people. the other part is building relationships with large number of people. god said not good for man to be alone at the beginning of genesis. that wasn't just a prescription for adam's matrimonial prospect. that was a prescription for each and every one of us. not good for us to be alone. glenn: can you -- maybe we'll tease it for the next

time you're on. how much time do we have? we have two minutes? can you do what you learned on this program about muse and entertainment in 90 seconds? >> something you said in the introduction to the show. you said given decline and fall of the roman empire and spoke of one of the sign of impending distinction of culture is obsession with entertainment. >> glenn: sure. >> what is so incredible about this -- i think you were spot on. we have the word amusement. same as entertainment. interchangeable word. but the word "amuse" is made up of "muse" and "a" in front of it. amoral is somebody not moral, amuse is something that isn't muse. what does muse mean? >> glenn: inspiration. >> right. thought. contemplation. that's really what you encourage on the show.

say to people you have an opportunity at the dinner table. don't be amusing. a way to stop yourself from thinking. blocking out. paralyzing any potential for depth -- >> if you look at decline and fall of the roman empire, that is exactly what they were trying to do. stifle imagination and the muse. back in a second.

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